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Paper, 'Fluxus sanguinis per penem mirabilis' [Case of extreme blood loss] by Dr Howman

Reference number: CLP/14ii/15

Date: 1723

Description

Howman shares the case study of a patient with pancreatitis who is suffering from blood loss. He describes taking blood from the patients, and how the bleeding was stopped with the use of medicines. Written by Howman in Norwich.

Subject: Medicine / Physiology / Phlebotomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Fluxus sanguinis per penem mirabilis. Ex epistola viri doctissimi domini Howman, M. D. ad dominum Hans Sloane, Baronettum. Coll. Med. Lond. præs R. S. Vice præs.'

Communicated by Hans Sloane. Read to the Royal Society on 21 November 1723

Reference number
CLP/14ii/15
Earliest possible date
1723
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Fluxus sanguinis per penem mirabilis' [Case of extreme blood loss] by Dr Howman, 1723, CLP/14ii/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_15/paper-fluxus-sanguinis-per-penem-mirabilis-case-of-extreme-blood-loss-by-dr-howman, accessed on 09 September 2024

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